tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5493557313410969282.post6760966671592502075..comments2018-02-17T17:35:45.806-08:00Comments on Lost Live Dead: Grateful Dead Live FM Broadcasts 1970 (FM Broadcasts III)Corry342http://www.blogger.com/profile/08049035074121231425noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5493557313410969282.post-28034307528782512352017-03-04T19:36:14.430-08:002017-03-04T19:36:14.430-08:00One of the KSAN DJ&#39;s either Dusty Street or Bo...One of the KSAN DJ&#39;s either Dusty Street or Bonnie Simmons was back stage when she heard about Janis Joplin and was in shock.jim thttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08800856848480560676noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5493557313410969282.post-22509015298058549482015-08-10T05:48:14.039-07:002015-08-10T05:48:14.039-07:00Warren Van Orden was the name of the radio host fo...Warren Van Orden was the name of the radio host for KPFA show called &quot;Stays Fresh Longer.&quot; He told me on the phone when I called that he recorded most of the shows at the Fillmore, including the audition shows. Along with other venues. I do believe his sidekick that recorded some shows name was &quot;Larry Byrne.&quot; Hope this helps. P.S. The only show I remember presented in Mono that I recall, was The Youngbloods at Pepperland. They demanded no stereo at all. I recorded the whole show from the radio that night. Great show, but was disappointed that it was in mono. oh well..<br />spudwashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16381380296789483755noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5493557313410969282.post-23935073308820512742014-03-28T19:24:09.829-07:002014-03-28T19:24:09.829-07:00LIA, thanks for these quotes. It&#39;s fascinating...LIA, thanks for these quotes. It&#39;s fascinating to see that the Dead and their management had a pretty clear picture of how telecom and home entertainment was going to evolve. When McIntire says &quot;everyone&#39;s going to have home videotape recorders,&quot; you have to remember that it&#39;s 1971. It would be more than a decade before that was true, but the Dead could already see that on the horizon.Corry342https://www.blogger.com/profile/08049035074121231425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5493557313410969282.post-60007504884032933882014-03-28T00:32:18.153-07:002014-03-28T00:32:18.153-07:00And Jon McIntire (band manager), from the Harvard ...And Jon McIntire (band manager), from the Harvard Independent, March 1971 - <br />McIntire: We did two live quadrophonic shows from Winterland, one with the Airplane and Quicksilver, and the other was New Year&#39;s Eve with Hot Tuna, the New Riders, and James and the Good Brothers, but that was just on the West Coast. The first program was good because the music was good, the quadrophonic was really exciting, but the visual stuff was kind of boring; in between sets and when they were tuning up they didn&#39;t have anything to do; it was a drag. But the second was supposedly visually a lot more interesting; it looked like a really powerful trip. So there might be some tapes we can edit down. Warner Bros. wants to edit them down and make an hour program for the BBC.<br />Weir: You don&#39;t get a chance to see much live rock and roll on TV, and it&#39;s very interesting to see on TV; it gives it a whole other perspective.<br />McIntire: Rather than show those videotapes (on the East Coast) it would be nice to do another program, and do it coast to coast. I&#39;m talking to NET about various video projects we want to get into, and that would be one of them; we want live simulcast across the country with quadrophonic. There are only two networks you can do that with actually, and that&#39;s NET and Westinghouse, just because ABC, NBC, and CBS wouldn&#39;t go for it - it&#39;s not an established commercial venture, rock and roll on television, although it&#39;s obvious from record sales and various other things that it can be very successful financially for the big networks...they&#39;ve never taken the step, it&#39;s never been proven to them; they&#39;ve had nothing but bad rock and roll on TV. I don&#39;t mean bad rock and roll, these guys have been on TV, the Airplane have and it&#39;s come off fairly well. The Airplane did a Perry Como show once that was pretty good, Glen McKay&#39;s light show worked well, but still it was only two songs. There was no format to work them into; it was totally juxtaposed onto the program. We wanted to do Dick Cavett&#39;s show one time with the Airplane and Ken Kesey and some of the Hog Farm, and take over the whole program, but Cavett&#39;s producer at the time wouldn&#39;t go for it; he just couldn&#39;t see why he should let us have the whole program...<br />Everyone&#39;s going to have home videotape recorders and it ain&#39;t gonna be very long. What we dream about most is the videotape thing, because that&#39;s the next big step, so we&#39;d like to get in on the ground floor, in terms of having the equipment... What&#39;s really happening is holographic video cassettes. It&#39;s not projected on a screen, it&#39;s projected into an area that you can walk through. Light Into Asheshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06943335142002007213noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5493557313410969282.post-11751228993743239852014-03-28T00:31:37.240-07:002014-03-28T00:31:37.240-07:00Related to the TV broadcasts in this post, here ar...Related to the TV broadcasts in this post, here are a couple quotes from interviews at the time - <br /><br />From Creem, December 1970: <br />Creem: Do you think you want to do more things like the Winterland gig? What else do you want to do with video?<br />Jerry: For sure. I think video is the answer to all our problems. Because it makes it possible to make live music and without anybody having to go through any trips for it. Just turn on the TV!<br />Phil: To my mind that Winterland thing was incredibly successful. I mean the image coming through the TV was so boss, that people had to come down to the hall after watching it on TV.<br />Creem: How do you feel about video cassettes?<br />Phil: Well to me cassettes are an open book. I think the first step is what we did, live gigs, broadcast – first to a single city, then a national hookup, and then a satellite to the whole world. This is what we were trying to get on for New Year’s Eve, I don’t think we’re even going to get it to New York. We had this fantasy of broadcasting nationwide New Year’s Eve, we didn’t even want to dream about satellite.<br />Creem: Why can’t you do it? That’s far out…<br />Phil: Don’t you think it would transcend “Auld Lang Syne” man?! I mean on national TV from fucking nowhere… I don’t think we’ve been able to sell it to the networks, maybe we’ll try to do it next year, maybe it won’t be on New Year’s, but I do think we’ll be able to get New Year’s on in San Francisco again. Light Into Asheshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06943335142002007213noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5493557313410969282.post-4329500743856402472013-11-29T19:01:25.995-08:002013-11-29T19:01:25.995-08:00as for who played drums on the may 1970 acoustic s...as for who played drums on the may 1970 acoustic shows - bill graham introduces the band on 5/15/70 before &quot;don&#39;t ease me in&quot; and he only mentions mickey. Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03157088309554543754noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5493557313410969282.post-45023464807892488002013-11-28T17:37:03.359-08:002013-11-28T17:37:03.359-08:00Jerry performed here on
7/?/70 Bob weir, John Cipp...Jerry performed here on<br />7/?/70 Bob weir, John Cippolina,Mario Cippolina, Pete Sears<br />&quot;in 1970, John Cippolina and I were forming Copperhead and John introduced me to Jerry and we played together on the first KSAN radio broadcast in their record library on the Richard Gossett Show with Jerry on pedal steel, John on guitar, Mario on bass, Bob Weir on vocals and rythmn guitar, and I played piano.&quot;(2)<br /><br /><br />2.)^Sears, Pete, 2400 Fulton Street<br />Jerry's Brokendown Palaceshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06451361448230329754noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5493557313410969282.post-43329399349139969342013-09-11T17:24:03.474-07:002013-09-11T17:24:03.474-07:00Correspondent Rion writes in with some interesting...Correspondent Rion writes in with some interesting information: <br /><br />I started school in San Francisco on 9/22, and the broadcast was the night before. They did not say it was a rerun so I assume that was the first time. I played the tape every day for weeks.<br /><br />Even if September 21 &#39;70 was not the first broadcast--and it could have been--it would mean that the May 2 show was being re-broadcast, itself an interesting fact.Corry342https://www.blogger.com/profile/08049035074121231425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5493557313410969282.post-29773056760971415182013-09-07T07:40:43.705-07:002013-09-07T07:40:43.705-07:00KPFA ia a public radio station, so they never had ...KPFA ia a public radio station, so they never had adds. I don&#39;t believe the DJ even broke in between sets - just let the whole show play through. cryptdevhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13944617292210813801noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5493557313410969282.post-18370824309107636022013-09-06T14:32:31.313-07:002013-09-06T14:32:31.313-07:00thanks for all the terrific updates and correction...thanks for all the terrific updates and corrections--I will update the post by integrating all of them.Corry342https://www.blogger.com/profile/08049035074121231425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5493557313410969282.post-19133590711274140872013-09-06T12:49:57.690-07:002013-09-06T12:49:57.690-07:00beat me by a minute. ;-)beat me by a minute. ;-)davmar77https://www.blogger.com/profile/02695575855800581727noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5493557313410969282.post-2202363708552075622013-09-06T12:48:38.624-07:002013-09-06T12:48:38.624-07:00November 22, 1970 WBCN-fm studios, Boston, MA Jerr...November 22, 1970 WBCN-fm studios, Boston, MA Jerry Garcia, Bob Weir and Duane Allman<br />Broadcast: November 22, 1970, WBCN-fm, Boston, MA<br />On Saturday, November 21, 1970, the Grateful Dead, The Allman Brothers Band and a chimp act (with some very unsettled chimpanzees) played Sargent&#39;s Gym at Boston University. <br /><br />slight correction here. the allmans were at the boston tea party this night.davmar77https://www.blogger.com/profile/02695575855800581727noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5493557313410969282.post-18513508416956131092013-09-06T12:47:14.769-07:002013-09-06T12:47:14.769-07:00The Allmans did not play with the Dead at Sargent&...The Allmans did not play with the Dead at Sargent&#39;s Gym prior to the WBCN broadcast. They had played the last of a three night run at the Boston Tea Party with Arthur Big Boy Crudup and Victor Brady. Here&#39;s the poster<br /><br />http://www.allmanbrothersband.com/index.php?module=My_eGallery&amp;do=showpic&amp;orderby=dateD&amp;siteprefix=abb&amp;pid=2362runonguinnesshttp://runonguinness.livejournal.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5493557313410969282.post-51660042405209661382013-09-06T12:01:24.139-07:002013-09-06T12:01:24.139-07:00Great extra comments from cryptdev - I would secon...Great extra comments from cryptdev - I would second that the 12/27/70 broadcast needs to be added, since it was the Dead&#39;s most directly &quot;promotional&quot; use of radio that year. (Though interestingly, the material they played on the air was no longer being played onstage that month!)<br /><br />I did not know 5/2/70 was broadcast that early. I am a bit surprised that Bear or the Dead would have donated the tape to the station, since I assumed it was an early case of an enterprising FM DJ playing a &quot;leaked&quot; tape. But if true, it would indicate that the band knew right away that this was a special show (or at least, the leaker did).<br />Do you know if the broadcast was interrupted by ads, or if this program needed a particular sponsor? Light Into Asheshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06943335142002007213noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5493557313410969282.post-54799610569455000872013-09-06T09:01:20.157-07:002013-09-06T09:01:20.157-07:00Wow - lots to comment on here.
First off, the HAL...Wow - lots to comment on here.<br /><br />First off, the HALO benefit was not broadcast, to my knowledge, and the only tape I know of in circulation is an audience recording of the QMS set. Tom Donahue was apparently serving as compere for the evening, and introduced the band onstage at Winterland.<br /><br />The KPFA broadcast series was called &quot;Stays Fresh Longer&quot; and indeed consisted of one live broadcast every Sunday night at, if I remember correctly, 10 PM. I religiously taped these shows in 1970 and shows included the following:<br /><br />Miles Davis Fillmore West 4/10/70<br />Youngbloods - Pepperland 1/71<br />Joe Cocker Fillmore West 4/26/70<br />Sons of Champlin 10/24/69<br />Aum 4/30/69<br />HP Lovecraft from the New Orleans House in 1969<br />and of course the Dead 5/2/70 show<br />I remember the regular emcee of the show saying that the Dead had provided the tape of the Harpur show for Broadcast. Since this was just before Bear was incarcerated, it is indeed possible that he contributed the tape. <br /><br />There were only two Calebration broadcasts. The first one comprised sets by Boz Scaggs and Linda Ronstadt, and the second was the Dead, followed by R&amp;B singer Swamp Dogg, and then by Quicksilver - each played about 30 minutes. All were clearly recorded in the same studio, but it was NOT KQED. I believe the show was broadcast on KCBS, with the FM feeds at KSAN and another commercial station. The broadcasts included advertisements which would not have been broadcast on public TV or radio. <br /><br />You are correct that all three bands were broadcast for the 10/4/70 broadcast, which was on KSAN and KQED FM. The Dead&#39;s set was underway when the broadcast started. I have never heard verification of whether Hot Tuna or the New Riders played beforehand - neither set was broadcast.<br /><br />The 12/31/70 show was also an attempt at a quadrophonic broadcast, with KSAN and KQED both participating. At that point, remote broadcasts required phone line connections between the broadcast studio and the venue, and these went terribly wrong right at the start of the Dead&#39;s set. The first few minutes of Truckin&#39; were broadcast clearly, and then cut out. When I was at home taping, I frantically switched between the two stations, as KQED had a lower quality version of the feed for awhile, and then cut out. Since the audio was such a disaster, the radio stations bailed after Big RR Blues. Hot Tuna played earlier, and their set was broadcast, with a few audio glitches. As noted, the Dead&#39;s set was broadcast in its entirety on KQED-TV, and I got verification from David Lemieux at one point that neither the 10/4/70 nor the 12/31/70 video remains in either the GD or KQED vaults.<br /><br /> One FM Broadcast you neglected to mention was the 12/27/70 KPPC FM broadcast with Garcia, Weir, Nelson, and Dawson, who performed several acoustic songs and tried to drum up business for the two remaining Dead/NRPS shows at El Monte Legion Stadium.<br /><br />Come to think of it, another curiousity not mentioned was the 7/70 broadcast of Garcia/Weir/Sears/Cipollina at KSAN studios. This has circulated with a variety of dates, some suggesting that it was Bill Champlin rather than Pete Sears playing keys. I tuned in to this just as it was wrapping up, and heard the players announced. Garcia and Weir also said they would drop by the next night to play some more. I was glued to my radio the next evening, tape deck poised, but they never showed.<br /><br />That&#39;s all I can think of for now:) cryptdevhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13944617292210813801noreply@blogger.com